[geeks] Big Damn File System....

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:56:58PM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:26:07PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> > There is.  You want the Multiple Devices driver, aka md.  Sufficiently
> > reliable that I've used it ont production boxen.
> 
> I'd agree that it's reliable, just don't use a journalling fs with it
> and kernel 2.2.x.

Oh?  AFAIK, one of the other admins had it working just fine with 2.2 and
reiserfs.  Is the issue one of instability/corruption, or inefficiency?

>                    Have they fixed the raid checking problem at startup?
> Last I used md, it wanted to do a full raid check at every boot, and the
> 'solution' was a kludged workaround.

Last time I set one of these up, you still needed to be 'orrible and
kludgy, but that was almost a year ago.

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